Raincoast Books
# Raincoast Books

Raincoast Books is a Canadian book distribution and wholesale company. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Raincoast was founded by Mark Stanton and Allan MacDougall in 1979 as a consignment wholesaler that shared overhead, warehouse space and staff with the pair's sales agency, Stanton & MacDougall. Today, Raincoast has over 90 employees and three divisions: Raincoast Distribution, Publishers Group Canada, and BookExpress.

## Divisions

### Raincoast Distribution

Raincoast Distribution is a Canadian company which provides complete sales, marketing and fulfillment services to a wide range of general trade and gift publishers from the United States, Britain and Canada. Companies distributed by Raincoast include Chronicle Books, Drawn & Quarterly, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lonely Planet, New Harbinger and St. Martin's Press.

**Publishers represented by Raincoast Distribution**


    Beginning Press
    Bilingual Books, Inc.
    Bloomsbury
    Chronicle Books
    Creative Company
    Drawn & Quarterly
    Figure 1
    Flatiron Books
    Gibbs Smith
    Hardie Grant
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    Laurence King
    Lonely Planet
    Macmillan Publishers Group
    Magnetic Poetry
    The Mountaineers Books
    New Harbinger Publications
    Osprey
    Page Two
    Princeton Architectural Press
    Quadrille
    Sounds True
    Sourcebooks
    Raincoast Books
    Tor/Forge
    Twirl

### Publishers Group Canada

Publishers Group Canada (PGC) was acquired by Raincoast Books in 2000. Based in Toronto, Ontario, PGC distributes independently owned book publishing houses including Grove Atlantic, New World Library and Egmont Books in Canada.

### BookExpress

BookExpress is a wholesale division supplying Canadian bookstores and retailers. BookExpress carries bestselling books from publishers including Random House Canada, Penguin Books Canada, HarperCollins Canada, Scholastic Canada, Diamond Book Distribution and Firefly.

## Raincoast Publishing

Between 1995 and 2008, Raincoast Books was also a book publisher. The Raincoast publishing program produced a range of fiction and non-fiction titles for both adults and children. Authors who published work with Raincoast included Anne Fleming, Alison Pick, Colin McAdam, Nick Bantock, George Bowering, Paul William Roberts, Naim Kattan, Roy Miki, Amanda K. Hale, and Bill Gaston. As a publisher, the company was noted for using large amounts of recycled paper in its books. In January 2008, Raincoast announced that it would cease to publish new books due to the rise in the Canadian dollar. Raincoast also ceased to be the Canadian publisher of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books in 2010.

